LikeBack in Amarok

[Ian Monroe]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Gary Steinert
<gary.steinert.ml at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 15 Mar 2010 12:45:37 Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have already told my disapproval of this in IRC, and will not go
>> further on that. Time will show I was right.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:23, Téo Mrnjavac <teo.mrnjavac at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Almost every complaint about one feature or another was balanced by a
>> >> compliment for that exact feature. :-)  I'll be happy to answer some
>> >> of the questions which come through as I'm able.
>> >
>> > Cool, thanks Valorie.
>> >
>> > I recognize that there are potential drawbacks and risks, mainly with
>> > fracturing the feedback gathering infrastructure that's already in
>> > place, but I believe that LikeBack gathers
>> > 1) a different kind of feedback than the existing channels,
>> > potentially large quantities of brief context-sensitive one-off
>> > comments that are not discussions, and should be considered as a
>> > statistic rather than real bug reports;
>>
>> Well, AFAICS, the feedback is exactly the same as the one we already
>> get in bug reports and on the forum and IRC, and, if I judge from the
>> mail addresses, it's done by exactly the same people.
>>
>> > 2) feedback from a different kind of audience than the existing
>> > channels, mainly those who are too unexperienced to do a proper
>> > wishlist entry but still run git or beta builds.
>>
>> See above. If you expect feedback from a different audience, this
>> would need to be in final releases, not in betas or git code, since
>> the people who actually use the git version are experienced enough to
>> give feedback through the existing channels. And sorry, I fail to see
>> what is difficult in using a forum, I see feedback there from people
>> with close to no experience at all.
>
> I would like to introduce a real use-case here. I used to spend quite a lot of
> time on Amarok. Now, due to starting my own project, that time has been
> reduced to almost nil. I still run Amarok from git, updated every day or two.
>
> The only form of feedback you get from me is reports of bugs that affect my
> listening experience directly, possibly along with the result of a few minutes
> spent trying to find the cause of the problem.
>
> I have only just updated my checkout to include the LikeBack feature, so it
> remains to be seen whether I *will* use it or not, but I feel I am more likely
> to report bugs, and give more general feedback on new features (positive and
> negative) if I can do so without having to fire up my IRC client or work my way
> through the behemoth that is b.k.o.

Well if it discourages people like you from doing some footwork, then
its not really useful. We don't have a lack of lazy bug reporters.

I'm more interested in feedback about new features from average users.

Ian